Zotter Chocolate
What is the secret of z o t t e r chocolate? This is a question often asked of Josef Zotter, Austria’s chocolate researcher and taste artist.
There is no secret, rather an openly expressed and practiced resoluteness: "We are not just part "ORGANIC" but totally, we follow the "FAIR TRADE" principles not just in part but with full conviction, and we don't just pretend to produce chocolate but have the entire production process - from "BEAN-TO-BAR" - all under one roof."
Chocolate can be used in many varied ways and, because Zotter is Zotter, he always takes us on a expedition of taste. We carry two distinct types of products from his range - Labooko and Hand-scooped Chocolates. Some of the combinations of the Hand-scooped Chocolates may sound a bit Heston Blumenthal but, like Heston's combinations, they work. And, as if the chocolate itself wasn't wonderful enough, each label has been lovingly designed by Andres H. Gratze who has won a prestigeous design award for his Zotter labels.
“Artist Andreas Gratze has created the imagery for this Austrian chocolate enterprise, a specialist in offbeat, delicious ‘hand-scooped’ slabs that coat fruits and ingredients such as whisky, peanuts and ketchup in couverture. Collectors of Gratze’s fine art also buy and keep wrappers from every new bar that appears. Giving a set of 10 or 20 different bars is as exciting for the aesthete as it is for the gourmet. His work has something of a graphic-novel flourish about it, particularly the male and female silhouettes on the Rose and Basil bar.” Mark C O’Flaherty. How to Spend It.
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